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Bachman's Welding Shop |
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Bachman's Welding Shop
Truck in front
of Bachman Welding Shop is a 1938 Chevrolet truck belonging to Keeler Fire
Dept., a tanker
truck that was originally a gasoline truck.
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North Center Street Shops
L-R Bachman's Welding Shop,
Fredricks Garage, Toppies (or Toppy's?) Bicycle Shop, ??,
Conklins Furniture |
Don Bachman opened his welding shop in 1944 on North
Center Street. He ran his business at this location until 1961, when he
built a new shop east of town on Red Arrow Hwy.
The building was torn down to make way for the new Hartford Post Office.
The remaining shops on this block, except the building on the south east
corner of Main and Center Streets, were also demolished to become home of the
new Hardings Friendly Market and parking lot.
The building to the right of Bachman's Welding Shop was
an auto repair shop owned by Dewey Fredricks and Harold Heniser. Prior
occupants were Charlie Wade's Hudson Garage and the building was originally
constructed by Clare Leach and known as Leach's Garage. This
photo postcard was dated October 8, 1910(?). On the front of the
photo is handwritten: "Ronald Leach, Hartford" The back of
the photo postcard reads:
Dear Roa: This is the boy when he ran away to the shop, the sun was
to bright so it isn't very plain. Grace
Postcard was addressed to Meroa Hotchkin, Benton Harbor Mich.
3-12-2006 - email from Edgar Hotchkin:
Meroa Hotchkin, in your postcard, was Meroa (Rosa) Loson,
wife of William Smith Hotchkin and dau of Oscar Loson. She died in
childbirth of her first child and is buried in Morton Hill Cemetery in
Benton Harbor, MI.
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Don had a jeep to hold the portable welder he
used to go out on calls. Some calls were not very pleasant....sometimes to car accidents.
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1958
Updated version of the same jeep on the left.
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Photos and information provided by
Pat Bachman Empson and Ernestine Green Bachman 11-2002 |
Donald Harold Bachman, 88, passed from his
life on earth to eternity in heaven
on Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005, at his residence in Hartford MI. |
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